Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 17, 1922, Page 1

VOL. LXIv—No. 198 POPULATION 29,685 . Attorney General Daugherty Spencer, N. C., That Railroad Shops Have Been Enter- ed, Workers Driven Out; dated—An Appeal Has Been Made for Marines and Troops—New Haven Road Announced It Has Shop- men to Spare—Cancels All Advertisements. Washingzon, ived by 1re that “serious connection with Aug. 16.—Reports re-, Attorney General Daugherty trouble” has occurred the railway shép- men’'s strike at Spencer, N, C. Strike sympathizer he said, tonight, had, ac- sording to hi “sreports, entered the shops, routed workers and had even Intimidat- ®d raiway police. An appeal had been made for marines and troops, the attor- ney general said he had been informed, sdding, however, that no federal action was being taken at present, although United States marshals were .“on th tob STATE TEOOPS REQUESTED FOR DUTY AT SPENCEE Raleigh, N. C. 16.—State troops were requested by the sherifft of Rowan county for duty at Spenow where disturbances occurred last night and early today at the shops of the Southern rallroad announcesa was made that Governor Morrison befare acting upon the request would go - to neer for a personal Investigation to- morrow on his way to the capital from Blowing Rock where he has been for a days. Tt was not indicated here whether the adjutant general's office was making preparations to use troops, but it was learned at Charlotte that the Gompany of the Natfonal Guard stationed In that y had received orders to be in readi- ness for quick mobllization. " NEW HAVEN ROAD NOW HAS ENOUGH SHOPMEN New Haven, Aug. 16—Claiming to have filled all positions vacated by the strike of the shopmen with enough men to spare to send 300 to' southern iuaus, the New York, New Haven and Hartfo:d rairoad and the Chesapeake and Ohlo rallroads today sent out notices cancel- £ all contracts for advertisements in e hewspapers here for machinists, elec- triciafls and other shopmen. According sto Superintendent E. E. Régan there is an estimate of six thou- sand men at work here besides the 300 sent to the southern roads. Mr.Regan sald that the large majority of men at} work at present are entirely competent o fill the places of the men who.are out, and although it s probable that a few will have to be discharged because: of HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONBY RAIL STRIKE SYMPATHIZERS Has Received Reports From and the Railway Police Intimi- incompetency, the road is in a position to “hold its own.” ¥ Mr. Regan said that the entire section between New Haven and New York is running 100 per cent. mormal. He ad- mitted that the section is eiectrified and the requirements were less than on s:c- tions operated by steam, but’hs ox- pressed confidence that these sections would soon be on a par with the others. “We are holding our own,” said Mr. Regan, “all places are filled, mostly by competent men. Of course there are a few who will have to be discharged be- cause of their inaptithde to learn the railroad business, but we expect” w retain at.least ninety per cent. of Luose at work now.” It was said tonight that every con- sideration will be given the complaints sald to have been made by a commitice of the Big Four Brotherhoods at the conference with Ciinton L. Bardo, gon- eral managed of the New Haven road yesterday. Doubt was expressed as to the magnitude of the complains, but an investigation' is being made with a| view to correcting any defects wiich exist. Railread men ' who were interviewed | tonight expressed doubt as to the num- ber of men the company claims to have at work and some went 50 far as o uwn | ignate the cancellation of contracts for advertiscments as propaganda on the | part of the company for the purpuae of | conveying the impression that the road! was not being effected by the strike. SIGNAL SAVED BAR HARBOR EXPRESS FROM BEING WBECKED Worcester, Mass., Aug. 16.—A signal warning the engineer to proceed slowly saved the first section of the Bar Har- bor Express of the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford railroad from being| wrecked eariy ,today when the tende and forward trucks of the mail car left the rails about 100 yards east of the Jackson' street crossing. Officials of the railroad could give no -explanation of| the derailment. The “slow” signal had bean set because sthe switchng engine was at work in the yards. The engineer stopped the train within a few feet and handly -any of the 200 passengers. were aware of the accident. The train was delayed fifteen minutes while another engine was attached to the coaches which were switched to an- other track. ALIBI DISCONNECTS GANCN WITH GIBERSON MURDER Tom's River, N. J, Aug. ball rain check given out Grounds, New York, and saved from he afternoon of the day William Gib- ot, convinced county ofticials 16.—A base- at the Polo rson was lofay that they could not connect Har- r¥ Ganun of New York with the killing tor which Mrs. Willlam Giberson is now under arrest. Ganun showed the paste- board to Prosecutor Jayme, and in addi- tion gave a satifactory alibi for the ev- ening hours, Mr. Jayne sald Another development in the case came when Georgs McGes of Lakehurst told the prosecutor he had seen Giberson ar- guing heatedly in front of his home with twb men on Sunday morning. The two men, one short and ome rather tall, are believed to be the couple from whom Giberson won some money in a craps | game Sunday evening, the prosecutor naid Detectives spent most of thelr time to- 2ay delving into a possible bootleg angle to the cass is Butler, the detective who has been handling most of the in- vestigation declared he had been watch- Ing Giberson for some time but had nev- sr been able to connect him with a boot- eg gang. He said, however, that Gib- on had made several automobile trips lasting from fifteen to twenty hours and without passengers, but that he had claimed to have collected $3 an ur on the cxcursions SEAPLANE SAMPAIO CORREIA HAS ARRIVED AT ROCKAWAY , Aug. 16.—The giant seaplane Sampalo Correla today arrived trom New York, completing the first leg of her 5,500 mile flight to Brazil, and Ser commander, Lieutenant Walter Hin- ton, announced that she would start at daybreak tomorrow for Manteo, N. When plane left New York, after having replaced a pontoon smashed in alighting yesterday, there was a re- port that minor repairs at Rockaway might consume two or three days, but Hiaton was positive this evening that dawn would see the flying boat headed southward Five minutes after the seaplane drop- ped into the water here, Hinton had dis- carded the trim uniform he wore when thousands lining Riverside I had een him climb into the cock-,% of his ship, and arrayed In a grimy jumper, was directing a band of mechanics. In contras the great assembly he had left behind him, Hinton found only this group of workers on the beach in front of the naval alr station to welcome him. In a few seconds excess baggage was golfg over the side. Even some light wonden boxes in which spare parts had been placed were discarded., MOTHER AND SON DROWN TRYING TO SAVE EACH OTHER Mass. Aug. 16—Mrs. Wil- of Worcester and her son Lesiie, aged 10, were drowned late lo- day wt Stoneville while trying to save each other. The boy was paddiing in shallow water when he sumbled and tell. In tryng to rogain his-balance he g0t into. deep water. Mrs. Demeres in runping to his assistance, tripped- and fell Mlso into deep water. The boy had partly got back 1o shore, but seeing his mother struggling went to her assist- ance. He reached for her, sscured a boid on her ciothing and when she went down he went down with her. The body of the mother was recovered . late to- night by the search for the son’s. body was given up at midnight and the res- wvolr will be dradmed tomorrow. Auburn, fred Demeres FREE STATE FORCES ARE ADVANCING ON DUNDALK Dundalk, Aug. 18 (By the A. P.)— During the last 24 hours, persistent ru- mors. were i circulation -that the Free State forces were advancing on, the town from different direstions. The. republicans have organied a larga| transport service w they have torn up the railroad between Endiskenny and Essensford on the south Ulster line. There is great anxlety over the possi- bilitoes of & Free State advance follow- ing the rccent landing of pational forces at Cork and Tralee, PERMITTED TO REOPEN New York, Aug. 16—The hoard of health granted the Shelburne reqiurant, which has been closed since six persons died after eating ple containing arsen there, a temporary permit to re-open The permit allows the company to op- erate for 30 day: According to department officials, 2,488 pounds of foodstuffs wmen were in the Testaurant at the time of the poisoning, have been dumped into the sea. OBITUARY Prof. Rollin D. Salisbury Chicago, Aug. 16—Prof. Rollin D. Salisbury, noted scientist, traveller and member of the faculty of the University of Chicago, died last night He had been 1l since June 1 Professor Salisbury was Internattonal- Iy famous as an authority on geology and geography He was a member of the expedition which rescued Commodore Peary in the Arctic regions in 1392 He was born at Spring Prairle, Wis., August 17, 1858, CABLED PARAGRAP Cholera Epidemic in © Constantinople, Aug. 16- epidemic rages in Crimea, the reports of refugees stantinople. Many Jews stricken by the plague, bj are not available. The fously suffering from weakened to offer an; disease. . PANICS CREATED BY A LION, A MONKEY AND A RAT New York, Aug. 16.—Three animals— a lion, a monkey and a rat—today threw New Yorkers into a panic. The lion, enraged in Central Park, at- tacked a keeper, Patrick O'Rourke, and injured hi mso seriously that he had to be taken to Flower hospital. The monkey, of the Kapisian variety found on the west coast of South Amer- ica, escaped from an animal store yestar- day and today was still terroriz\g the Chelsea district “after having raided a hotel and perched on the roof of a church. Poisoned bananas strewn along roofs failed to lay him low this evening. The rat, which ran amuck on West 65th street, in front of the New York oftice of the secretary of_ state; where a number of women motorists were in line for licenses, brought forth feminine screagis as he dashed into the maze ‘of traffic. A policeman, running a foot race with the rodent. finally killed it with' an ash can he had ~ picked up, en route. The monkey escaped terday. a at 10 a. m, ves- He had broken open his cage in store on West 23rd 'street. The proprietor, becoming ' frantlc, spread the alarm.. The animal, he said, stood two feet six. Three hours dater the monkey turned up. He was scaling a drain pipe on the Chelsea hotel. His pursuers dashed up'to_the roof to head him off. He fooled them by hop- ping into 2 window. Wandering through the hotel, the | monkey throttied a couple of songbirds in the manager's suite, then ascended to the roof and made his way to the ridgepole of the Presbyterian church near Seventh avenue, Darkness by this time had descended and hotel guests given to literature turn- ed into bed recalling uneasily a certain {story Poe had written concerning murd- ers in the rue morgue. The monkey's first appearance this morning was in the dressing table of a woman guest. She shied a ‘slipper at him. He then disappeared through the window. With him went a gold pin. Later he was reported to have raided a boarding house kitchen and to have crossed a back vard on clotheslines, ith neighbors laying down a barrage. Up a fire escape he climbed and into a factory, from which soon issued screams of girl operatives. He made his exit by way of an elec- tric light wire. He made his way to a 'neighboring church steeple from where he enjoyed the sunset, but with the approach of twilight he perched himself on the roof of a five-story building nearby. He was there, making derisive gestures at the seething crowd in the strest below, when Patrolman Frnest Freeberg . walked by on his way_ to his-post: - The officer took up the chase. The monkey jumped two floors to another moof. Freebérg follow- ed on a ladder. The monkey returned nered in a room. While eager assist- ants blocked egre at -the- windo; Freeberg entered the room and subdued the monkey. after a lively tussle fn the course of which he was thrice bitten in the hand. PRESIDENT CONSIDERING THE DISTRIBUTION OF COAL Washington, Aug. 16. (By the A. P —President Hardmg in his contemplated statement -to - congress upon the nation- al industrial’ situation will suggest leg- isiation giving the federal fuel emer- gency organiation powers to control the distribution and price of coal to safe- guard the country against hardship: this winter, according to officials who talked today with the chief executive, Thé president was reported to be con- ering seriously recommendations for definite legislation to provide legal. pow- ers Lo supplant the voluntary system of coal control now n operation and was understood to have before him a-draft of a tentative plan of fuel administra- tion prepared by Secretary Hoover. Creation of a federal ccal commission also would be recommended, it was re- ported, which would be = designed to make a thorough investigation of tHe national coal industry and suggest legls- lation for the permanent solution of la- bor problems. Pending the enactment of empowering legislation the central coal distribution committee, high officials indicated, would continue fuel control under voluntary price agreements. Existing fair price agreements mads with Mr. Hoover by producing operators were to be in effect during the. strike, but a meeting of the federal coal com- mittée with the commerce secretary and Fuel Distributor Spencer today, to- con- sider. the effect of partial settlement ot the mine controversy upon price ar- rangements, decided that the agreements would hold until production was more largely- resumed, = Mr. Spencer said the price situation had improved comsiderably -in the dis- tricts south of the Ohio and Potomac Tivers, but in the north it was not so good. Investigation of charges of profiteer- ing in coal, however, was asked of Mr, Hoover today by Senator Borah, ‘repub- | | 1 GOPYRIGHT CLINEDINST, WASHINGTON Francis P. Garvin, President of the Chemical Foundation, Inc., who has been formally instructed to re- turn to the Allen Property Cu: todian elaven' formerly enemy- owned patents'sold to the Found: tion when Mr. Garvin was Alien Property Custodian. lican, ldaho, in a letter calling for sug- gestions as to immediate measure to pre= vent charging of excessive prices. ANTHRACITE OPERATORS TO MEET MINEES TODAY Philadelphla. Aug. 16.—Anthracite ope erators and offieials of the United Mine Workers were gatherinz here tonight for their joint conference tomorrow which, it is predicted. will result in an early settlement of the hard coal strike. Opti- mism was . apparent on all sides. and some of those in close touch with tie situation sald they confiden:ly cxpected to see the suspensicit call-d off -with n a week and the men back in those mines which are in condition to work a few days later. Some.of the colleries aie re- Ported in bad condition. and .it_is.said that it probably would take a month or more to_make them safe for ojerfation. Most of them, however, could be started at_once. ; Upon his return from the Cleveland conference today, = Thomas Kenned chairman of the anthracite coal negotia- tigns committee and a member of the TUnited Mine Workers policy -committee in a" sta miners had made a “powerful” fight. “They have been united and have co- operated with each other,” he deciared, “and in this way the struggle should be carried to the finish, which we hope is not far distant.” Samuel D. Warriner, president of the Lehigh Valley Coal and Navigation: Com- pany and head of the operators megoti- ations _committee, Teiterated -his belief that tomorrow’s conference. would : bring about a Settlement of the. difficalty. _ to the Chelsea hotel and was there cor-| i | ent at Hazelton said “the | ° | President May Delay His Rail Message To Await Outcome of Con- ference Today of Union Chiefs and Road Execu- tives. ‘Washington, Aug. 16.—(By the A. P.) Agreement between railroad executives and railroad labor organization _leaders to hold . another conference tomorrow in New York to seek a settlement of the shopmen’s strike, it was said today, had resuited 'questioning the desirabi.ity of making his expected report to congr:ss and the country on the strike situation within the next few hours. Plans made for the reception ‘ of his ecommunication tomorrow at a joint session of the ‘house and senate consequently were un- derstood to be on the verge of a revision tonight, as the president was represeuted as ‘being desirous’ of withholding his statement of the case if the union chisfs and the railroad presidents could nold out any prospect of a mutually satis- factory settlement. Heads of the seven railrcad labor or- Eanizations on strike met today with the officials of unions not- involved in the controversy and after some delay reach- ed a decision to take almost- the entire group to New York for the discussions with the executives. Though officers of the five organizations of train service employes, the engineers, conductors, fire- men, brakemen and switchmen, wiil be the only ones actually to meet with the committee of rallway executives, their chairman, Warren §S. Stone, declared they desired close at hand all the strike leaders and the spokesmen for all the other railroad unions. Mr. Stone and the brotherhood officials who. will meet with the .rail executives declared they were not taking any pre- pared proposition to the meeting with the managements. “I wouldn't be fool enough to put it in the newspapers if I had one, anyway,” Mr. Stone remarked. L. E. Sheppard, president of the Order of Conductors, said the demand of the strikers for full senlority status in case of their return to work could not be modified and the views of the strike leaders appeared to coincide _entirely with this position. The seniority ques- tion has been the crucial issue in the strike situation ever since the organiza- | | Capt. MarkL Gkt Held for Rum-Running For Years a Resident of Mys- tic — Widely Know in $25,000 Bail. New York, Aug. 16—Charged in 2 federal warrant with being one of the principale in a rum-running’ exploit that ended with the selzure of three wiskey. laden sloops off Fire Island on July 27, Captain Mark L. Gilbert, widely known in, shipping circles and for a years a réident of Mystic, Conn., was arrested today and locked up on failure to furnish 25,000 bail. The captain and another man still being sought, were caurzsd with having “shanghaied” George Cox, mate of the auxiliary schooner Marion Mosher, one of the - captured - vessels. The other seized craft were the loop J. H. B, and the auxiliary sloop K. 0706, During the war Captain Gilbert was assoctated with the Morse' Steamship in- terests, For two weeks federal agents said they have been hunting him for ai leged participation inr.m-ronnmz bt chiefly for his alleged connection with the disasterous expe-ton iact Juv whun tederal officials charge him with having fiitted out. Cox was one of severa] prisoners taken when the Marion Mosher was seized, told federal officials that he was-hired, as a mate of the vessel, but was ignorant of the rum-running operations unt.l he zot to sea. He refused to work further, he- declared, after which he was beaten and deprived of food. He said the liquor car- 50 on the Marion Mosher was taken aboard at Nassau and Bermuda. 12 BOYS PERISHED I IN FIRE JEWISH ORPHANAGE Montreal, Aug. 16.—Firemen searching the smouldering rutms of the Jewish Boys' Orphanace at Shawbridge, Quebec, which was destroyed by fire last night, placed the gumber of dead today at 12 Roll call was not answered by six wf the 55 young orphans who were inmates of the institution. In addition to these, Thomas Legault, the caretaker, his wife, and children, imprisoned by flames in lower rooms, were burned .o death. Before the discovery of the fire, the flames had cut off the escape of the or- phans. They were marshalled quickly in top rooms. The older boys guarding tions now out of service agreed to order | the youn=er, made rope ladders of bed their men back pending re-hearings be- fore the railroad labor board of wage cuts which went into effect Puly 1. President Harrison of the Southern rallway who annoinced early this week after attempting unsuccessfully to deal separately with the striking unions. on the basis of granting them the seniority demand, that the . Southern - raflway would procéed to employ outside - men, issued a statement today declaring that ¥people_all gver, the soath mow demand that’ this strike be fought.out.” Public opinion could restore normal. transporta- tion, he sald, but if it “supports, the de- termination’ of the striking. shopmen to disregard the tribunal set up by con- grtss’ to' them justice, and agrees that they. may write -their own pay checss, then there may be a resumption of work on. that - basis, but freight ‘rates 'must again be increased.” 5 President Harding who was understood to be preparing his message to congress, held discussions concerning it during tns day with Senator. Lodge, the republican leader in the senate. It was considefed certain, advisers said, that he would not requést ‘legislation to deal with the ral strike, although it was regarded ua probably he would assure congress that sheets. Then, as the flames crept through the corrivors, the little boys . were. let down first from the outside balcony, apd later their rescuers escaped death By the same route.. It was sald that there were no fire éscapes on the building. Bays from a training school for delin- quents’ nearby, 'ran lines.of. hose to the Dblazing building, and aided village fire- men. . 2 All the yictims were sleeping in a dor- mitory adjoinig the rooms. of tho care- taker, who merished with his entire fam- ily. - 4 numiber- of little_girls were hous- ed i without ill effects. All thé monitors distinguished = theni- selves by their_coolness, but two brothers Sammy Kauffman aged 14 and Joe, 15 —-were thespeclal heroes. Sammy had charge of - onme - group. Checking up- his charges, he.found one —Sidnéy Rosénbaum—missing. iving back into_the flaming building, he found the little fellow still asleép. He seized the lad and ran out with ‘him, just as the fiames. swept over.the.bed. This was what Sammy had to say of his- exploit: “Gee~it-was-awful: "It was the. first time T ever bawled. Stperintendent Gurdy' wanted to go beck into the bullding when he heard that the other fellows were- trapped. such a2, request would be made if the|Dut we all held him back and wouldn't situation necessitated Tt was said to be his intentlon to ex- plain_the whole industrial eituation' in the light of steps taken by the adminis- tration with reference to the strikes and it. was considered probable that he would express a determination to give federal aid and protection to efforts to keep the raflroads running. This determinatio, it was suggested, inclined him to delay his pronouncements for a few hours at| least, lest.they~ affect the continued er- forts of”non-striking unions to mediate for the strikers. CAPTAIN CHARGED WITH MURDER ON HIGH SEAS New: York, Aug. 16.—Charged with murder on the high' seas in consequence of the death of ‘a pantryman, Captain George H. Miles, former commander of the shipping.board steamer lremdent Van Buren was arraigned before U. S. Commissioner Hitehcock today and. sent to_the Tombs, to awatt a further hearing. ‘The captain denied the charge and said the pantryman, H. H. Baxter, diéd from taking 'drugs. Assistant - Distriet At torriey Goldthwaite_charged in. his: com- plaint that Miles manacled the pantry- man ‘to a stanchion in the vessel's hold and beat him so badly that he.died the next day and was buried at sea. Australian Tennis Ace “onn i & e let him go. It was too late, anyway. What Joe Kaufman did was this: Risking _his life, he stuck..into the azing hall until he had. got out. all but four of his little band. Then he sat down and cried for their lo Particularly did he mourn little Chon- ey Schecter. “I zave him a real birthday party the day before vesterday,” he sald. “T bought him a lolly-pop and tried to give him a good time, and now, he's dead Another le hero - was -Joe Shapirs. aged 13. The flames had almost reached the bed of his seven. vear old brother, Bernard, when he.ran into the dormitory and carried him ont.-in a blanket. Included among the victoms werc Louis Spitznick, 14 year old cripple. who also was hoth deaf and dumb, and Jo- seph Feigelson. a playmate four vers vonger who of all the lads. in the or- phanage alone understood the finger language of the dumb. - - Louls had ‘been. in failing health, and had been sent to Shawbridge that he might recover.) Joséph was seat along to make his hol.iay motec hapy, Two other victims were ‘hrothe v, I idor White. aged 10-and Samif:v, Their father was tu har= visitd then last might. All @veaag leng the ltte fclows ran arozm¢ .tellng th- com- rades that “Daddy " S conn. But “Daddy” miss:d the evs He’ arrived ‘this mor1 of the tragedy. red bed on which raitad tw i Sri s S 'KEYSTONE ViEw co. NEW YORK' - Gerald L. Patterson, captain and he ‘Australan Davis Cup teanis team.: - - Yis CHANGE IN OWNERSHIP _ ' OF RUSSIA INSURANCE CO. New York, -Aug. 16.Purchase of sub- stantially the entire - copital - stock of the Rossia Insurance. company of Amer- ica, sald to be.the largest fire and marine Teinsurance company in America operat- ing, under a .domestic charter, was -an- nounced tonight by a banking syndicats headed by Kidder, Peabody and ' com- pany. ' Public offering of the stock probably will be made tomorrow. The change in ownership, it was, an- nounced, will not: invelve -any change in the operating management. A - state- ment of the company as of June - 30 showed total assets of $9,544,023 and & total surplus of $3,379,828: MANKILLED AT ‘WALLINGFORD . BY AN EXPRESS TRAIN Wallingtord, - Conn.,Aug. 18.—Harry Blake. about sixty-two__years. - old, painter employed by the New York, Haven ‘and Hartford railroad.., was in- stantly kilied today when he was struck by a’south-bound express- opposite the #tation here. “Blake is said-to have been deaf and to have failed to notice the ap- proach of the train for this reason. His home was-in Hartford. ; Ay LOGAN COUNTY MINER ~ CONVICTED OF MURDER Charleston, W.. Va., Aug. 16.—John Wilburn. who pacticipated in the march of armed miners.on ocounty a-year ago. was convicted- in cireuit- court {here| Hoaver by Chairman Borah of the sen- fonight. of second degree murder-in con- | ate labor committee who asked the cab- tion ‘with ‘the shooting of .Deputy.'Sheriff | inét officer for suggestions as to. imme- _13..c. Moore,, during-theLogan,-battic. % " BRIEF TELEGRAMS Four thousand shoe stitchers employed in’ about 75 Lynn shoe factorizs walked out yesterday. = ‘ A Columbus taxieab company adver- i#i=ad mirniarie service to all parts of the United States, Another attempt to get. the Turks and Greeks"together for a peace conference is ‘under wa. " Virtoally ‘every important coal mine - Nova Scotia- is closed by a stfike of upwards of 12,000, miners of the prov- ince. The freighter Mohawk, owned by the Burton Steamship Company of Boston is undin gto pieces on the rocks in the outh of Kil Von Kull. 3 The cost of living in Austria was in- creased 12¢ per cent. within the last 30 .decording to the monthiy index day figure. Bernard F. Lynch wa s reappointed United States Commissioner in en district by Judge Edwin S. Thomas. | The term is for four years. Storekeepers and others who have had slot machihes in their paces in Water- bury, are rushing them out of the way of Prosécuting’ Attorney James ‘A. Peasley. The shipping board and -mergeney |an extraordinary session of parliament fleet corporation reduced its personnel by | and financial plans prepared by Minister 3158 between June 13, 1921 and Au- An offer to testify in the senute in- vestigation of gasoline and oil prices wagh received from W. C. Teaole, president of the Standard Oil 798. Company of Ne Jersey. Directors of the Bethlehem Stee] Cor- poration approved the plans to buy the Lackawanna Steel Corporation. will be sent to stockholders to meet Sep- tember 18 to take final action. The former senate chamber state capitol wili bs thy office and work- ing place of the state tuel commission, and yesterday preparations were made to put it into shape for such use.’ Former Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New letter o Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, that if democratic convention nomin- ated him for governor, he would accept. the state Jess senger, penitentiary, Pennsylvania, order so that he may be taken to Bostun York, announced in a letter form Murphy, all was released from the to face amurder charge. Professor Howard Crosby Butler, Princeton university, died in the Ameri- His body was e for an autopsy. Lr. can ‘hospital taken to thé mory Butler arrived in' Paris rTecently in Paris. Constantinople, having been engaged supervising “excavations: at Sardis. President Harding will not ledse Wash- ington as long as the industrial situition he_orphanage,, but they escaped | remains critical, it was said at the White i House and will give up his proposed trip next week to theere is a radical improvement in cou- Mooseheart, Ilis., ditions. Firing steadlly at a speeding auto- mobile loaded with liquor, in New York, policemen careened through crowaed lower ast Side streets: until the pursued car crashed in- to a cigar store window and was wreck- ed. Fifty-three. head of pure bread Hol- stein. cattle will ke placed on the avc- tion Block when the Conn:cticut Holsteln Fresian . Breeders’ i annual meeting in in a commandered association Bridgeport hoics 26th. " Five regular patrolmen of the Brock- ton police department, were assigned at 8 o'clock yesterday morning to oegir strike emergency patrol of the New York New bridges in that city. The Connecticut Firemen's Asscclation and the Connecticut Association of Firs Chiefs, in -New Britain 500 firemen and more from all over the state here as delegates. Joseph Janleki who was arrested in New Bedford, Mass, ana brought to Bridgeport and held in $2,000 for the |y, September term of thg superior court ou a charge of obtaining money wrongful- 1y. The primary for the twenty-ome di- | rectors to répresent the.twenty-one dis- |wind, used to Imagine that out -of the | mist they could see the gallot of Flying Dutchman, tricts of the Connecticut Valley Tobacc) Association has closed and the contract signers in each district will now vote for Haven and Hartford rae:: opened a two days' conventi There are upwerds than the director for their discrict. Acadlans from all parts of Canada a=s the United States iwere Grand Pre to witness the dedecation of a chapel, a memorial to the French se.- tlers of the land of Evangeline, expe.led assembled by the British in 1755. New Hav- . 1923, at an aggregate saving of Notices the Frank Smith, who was serving a twelve to- fifteen year term for shooting and robbing a bank mes- eastern on a pardon from uniess taxican s August 50 chfets Rambouillet, “France, Aug. 16.—(By The A. P.)—The French cabinet today unanimously approved of the. German reparation policy ‘of Premier - Poincare and congratulated him on “the stand he took at the London conferénce of b lied premiers.* The- entire morning ses- sion, presided over by Prémier Millerand, was devoted -to Premier Poincare’s ex- position of what took place at London and_ discussion op that subject. The cabinet planned to meet again in the aft- ernoon, when the question of convening of Finance Lasteyrie were to be discuss- ed. An official communique issued after the morning mesting had ended, said the premier made a complete exposilion of the London negotiations and the. reason why it was found impossible to reach agreement. The cabinet, said the comms. nique, was unanimous in approving of bis attitude and declared i entirely wit hhim in his view of th: rerarations situation. The reparations commission probably will- meet tomorrow to decide formaly whether or not Germany is to b2 ac- corded a moratorium. on her cash in- ! dewn instaliments. Effort” is hti_n! made for a compromise which will tide e e w MOR7 AMENMENTS TO TARIFF BILL ADOPTED Washington, Aug. 16—With two ex- ceptions all important amendments to the administration tariff bill offered today by individual senators were approved by the senate. Senator Harreld, republi- can, Oklahoma, lost his fight to impose tarifts on crude petroleum and fuel oil and democrats were unsuccessful in ef- forts to reduce the rates on aluminum. individual amendments be acted upon before the senate Te- cesses tomorrow. Senate leaders hepe that after the final vote late Satur the measure can be sent to. Zonfererce immedtately. Chairman McCumbe: and Senator Watson, of Indiana and Curtis, Kansas, republicans, to the finance com- mittee, discussed this question with Pres- ident Harding tonight at the White House. They sald afterward (hat they hoped the Bill could be made ready for the president early in September. The aluminum and_oil*questions furn- ished the “hfgh spots” in senate debate today. , The mame of Secretary Mellon was brought into. the aluminum discus- &ion as a" large stockholder in wha declared to be the “aluminum-trust.” the Aluminum Company of America, while a statement by Senator Harreld that he had some financial interest in the oil in- dustry was followed by renewed debate as ‘to whether senators should ~vote on tariff - duties which might favorably af- fect their_personal properties. Discussing the aluminum dutles, Sen- ator Reed, demoerat, -MisSouri,” charzed that the taciff il was “tainted” with the self-interest Of high officers of the federal government.- He said “every one knew' the measure had been “largely DPrepared” by experts of the treasury de- partment and asserted that the federal officer ‘who. helped - to - prepare t bill “to put money. into his own pocket ought to ‘be impeached.” o er ot in a The Flying Dutchman The legend of the Flying Dutchman !s of a Dutch skipper, who in the early part of the seventeenth ciatury, was trying to round the Cape of GOCa hiu;= {in the teeth of a succsssion of heavy gales against which his clumsy crafe was unable to beat to windward and gain any w: This Dutch_skipper is said to have blaspehmously deficl the Almighty to keep him from rounding the 2d on of cape and declared that he would keep ot in_ spite of heaven -and- hell, until he made it. He was taken at his word, and ‘is supposed ‘to be still at it Imag- inative sailormen of by-gone years, when encountering the common_occurrence of heavy weather oft the .cape and a head the with | its daunuem. shaking his fist at the | quite safe to say that the Flying Luu man has not appeared a great deal in ‘recent years. In fact modern seamen have never heard of the legend.-—Ad ture Magazine for August. in Premier Poincare Hed Explair Course at the London Conference—Reparations Comhe mission is to Meet Today to Decide Formally Whether or Not Germany is to be Accorded a Moratorium on Her cember, when the commission ' belleves another meeting or alfled- premiers will have to consider the reparations settle- ment on a broad scale. = - 1t is admitted that France eam’prob- ably block the granting of a morstorium by ‘the extra vote accurded to the pres- ident of the commissicn, M. Dubois, who is @' Prenchman. It 15 believed that om the question of granting a respité the commission is evénly divided, Beigium and France opposing Great Britain and Italy favoring. ’ The most likely compromise, it was sa!d in' reparations circles today, is that known as the Belgian plan.’ This'pikn would make possible 2 moratorium un- til the end of this year. Under the terms of the priority agreement, Belgium 'is entitled “to all cash payments- due-Bes tween now and Décember. The Belgian delegation to the London conference 18 reportéd to have informaily suggestbd as a way out of the deadiock’ that Bel- glum would give up these payments ahd in thei place accept long term notes from the German government indorsed by the three larest banking institutions in Germany, the Deutsche, Dresdener and Disconto banks. 5 1t is believed that France will accspt this plan if it would. save the entente and bridge over the period between naw and December, when a complete settles ment could be arranged. . NEW YORK NEGROES = RIOT ON EXCURSION New York. Auz. 16.—A thousand negre men and women returning from an ah- nual picnic of the West Side Votors' League, a-negro organization, ram riot on board the excursion steamer Smith- field crossing from the Manhattan shore of the Hudson- tonight. One (§ the picnickers was probably fatally stabbed, several others received Taor wounds, and the crew of eleven wis intimidated. be cre fwu squade uf ros serves, which -boarded " the steamer n- mid-stream from a police launch, Te- stored order. Four negroes.who leaped overboard after being arrested were res- cued from drowning by bie jackets from - tke battleship Maryland. The plcnic was 4 n2isy affa’r at Feredr View Grove, N. J., at whith there wis much dancing, more singing and. vet a little ‘drinking, the sc.i»y chasgs. &t sunset the party went én board the Smith. field for the return trip to Maj t The dancing and the wwging. and 7 cording the the crew, the drinking com- tinued. Four negroes playing craps in_the e of an aft funnel began.to quirrel A razor flashed. One of the gamesters ran toward the stern. As he fied nmmhz thronged companion way he held his over an open wound on his reck: In‘a moment the ship was in an uproar. _ Captain Raynor began a dash for the Tonkers shore. A police Jaunch, with ten men. reached the Smithfield soon: after- ward. The arrival of the police was a signal for 3 general outburst. Rescuing the injured negro.the police placed un- der arrest four men whom he pointed out as his assailants. Two ‘were left to guard them while the other licemen made their way through the fighting mob. The crew was summoned 2nd with the policemen began: restoring order. In the meantime the four prisoners left at the rail had overpowered their cap- tors and plunged overboard. They were rescued by a boat 10ad of blue jackéts from the Maryland, which lay at an- chor nearby. Income Taxes The most prosperous 1 per cent. of. the income receivers of the country in 1318 had nearly 14 per cent. of the total.in- come. . This 1 per cent. had incomes to- talling of $8,000.000,000. That sounds like material for an oration on “the capitalist class” “the rich are getting richer” or “the domifs- tion of the doflar.” % But it gets little different sound when we add the statement: 5 ] “When we start from the top of the | income scale .we mus:-go-down to people recelving $5,000 per annum in orgér.ts include 1 per cent. of the income recelv- ers. o5, % These figures are taken from “Incomse in the United States” the résult of more than 2 year of work by the staff of the National Bureau of Ecomomic - Re- Jersey to the - An overheated turbine of the destroyer Putnam, developed in the course of yes- terday’s standardization trial, has caus- ed a suspension of the navy department's displacement experiments with ths ves- sel. Gilbert: Sardier, the French ace who during the war brought down fifteen Ger- man planes was badly injured at Cler- mont-Ferrand, France, in the interna- tional . gliding contest when he was dashed-to the ground after the. conuol of his gliding triplane refused to re- spond. Six men captured early Monday in & liquor Taid on the sloop Mohawk off Mag- nolla ‘Beach, “wefe arralgned befors a United States commissioner “in Boston today ap- federal warrants charging them with conspiracy to-import liquor. All Weré released on personal recognis- ance. ' - The Pacific m¥ls. Lawrence, Maxs., nounced. through Rev. -Father. James 1. O'Reilly" that it would restore the old rate ‘of wages that exisied prior to Mareh 27 dating October 1. Those who return to work immealately will work under’ the 20.per cent. wage cur wntil October 1, when the néw scale w1 g0 into effect, retroactive to September 5. BORAH SENDS EVIDENCE OF SOFT COAL PROFITEERING Washington, Aug. 16.—Information to support -charges of bituminous coal prof- iteering was sent today to Secretary e__measures -to prevent _charging of |. | Labor Member. Of The U. 8 AO. Whirton, labbk mermbée of -« the Tnitea i e Railroad Labor Board their own familles. This has A timated at $18,450,000,000. . Most of the huge increase tlonal income during. merely to the rise of “.| capita income rose from $586 in 1915, turned into 1913 prices, the pri 1t shose we the 1903 income was $333 ‘and t hundred years only cca feated the Spanish Armada, controlied during that perfof tae ‘mentalities of transportation on ates Rallroad & Aiegwnii iw